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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Judge reopens Trump’s IRS suit to examine $1.8bn settlement with justice department

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The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, might be brought to court to testify about the settlement with the IRS. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

A federal judge has reopened Donald Trump’s $10bn case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after receiving a third-party motion asserting that the settlement, which lacks detail, “is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court”.

The ruling, issued by the Miami judge Kathleen Williams, revives a lawsuit brought by the president and his sons against the IRS after their personal and business tax returns were leaked by a former contractor.

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